Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that pays rent to use or occupy land, a building, or other property owned by another.
- noun A dweller in a place; an occupant.
- transitive & intransitive verb To hold as a tenant or be a tenant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- A corruption of tenon.
- noun In law: A person who holds real property by private ownership, by any kind of title, either in fee, for life, for years, or at will.
- noun More specifically, one who holds under a superior owner, as a lessee or occupant for rent: used thus as correlative to landlord.
- noun A defendant in a real action. See
action , 8 . - noun One who has possession of anyplace; a dweller; an occupant.
- noun In heraldry, same as
supporter . - To hold or possess as a tenant; occupy.
- To let out to tenants.
- To live as a tenant; dwell.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To hold, occupy, or possess as a tenant.
- noun (Law) One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title of which is in another; -- correlative to
landlord . See Citation from Blackstone, undertenement , 2. - noun One who has possession of any place; a dweller; an occupant.
- noun by the laws of England, one who holds immediately of the king. According to the feudal system, all lands in England are considered as held immediately or mediately of the king, who is styled
lord paramount . Such tenants, however, are considered as having the fee of the lands and permanent possession. - noun See under
Common .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who pays a fee (
rent ) in return for the use ofland , buildings, or other property owned by others. - verb To
hold as, or be, a tenant.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb occupy as a tenant
- noun someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else
- noun a holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease)
- noun any occupant who dwells in a place
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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_In theory_, the tenant in chief could not sell his land; he could sublet it to a _mesne tenant_, who stood to himself precisely in the same relation as he -- the tenant _in capite_ -- stood to the sovereign, the mesne tenant in his turn being bound to render certain _services_ to his over lord, and liable to forfeit his _lease_ -- for in theory it was that -- if certain contingencies happened.
The Coming of the Friars Augustus Jessopp 1868
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Jnyirwedpe imdi/cendirt defendant pleads to part npft'-temttrt, and fhews who is tenant to the other part; that demandant had entered; and replication to noA-tenare, that the tenant was tenant* &c.; demarrer to the refidoe; judgment for the de - mandant, for that the lad plea was reptignant, and alfo for that the time of thst entry of demandant is not ailedged, |.
A Complete System of Pleading: Comprehending the Most Approved Precedents and Forms of Practice ... 1797
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"This is a sum of money allowed for College chambers to the former occupier, in consideration of repairs or fitting up, and fur - niture, and is frequently transferred from one tenant to another in succession, a tenant* being answerable to a person so repairing or fitting up at two or three removes. —
Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer ... 1812
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Another tenant is a person, not a thing, not part of the amenities.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Where, According to Tort Law, Should Accused Criminals and Ex-Convicts Live? 2010
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On the rare occasions when we actually have a deadline, because a tenant is arriving, or some such, I do give advance (one or two months ') notice and we do reward meeting deadlines when it becomes necessary to have one.
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But Fuller doubted the plan would work in what he described as a tenant's market.
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One kind of tenant is a corporation's back-office operations or an entire division that can be separated from the
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The tenant is very successful so the capitalized percentage of the gross exceeds values of comparable properties in the area.
The Volokh Conspiracy » An Important Case on Compensation for Takings 2010
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If a tenant is too dangerous to be living among the free, the state and only the state should make that determination and restrict his abode.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Where, According to Tort Law, Should Accused Criminals and Ex-Convicts Live? 2010
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Its victims, with grim humor, call it "tenant - house rot."
THE TRAMP 2010
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